In preparation for a future viewing of The Forbidden Plan...

In preparation for a future viewing of The Forbidden Planet, I decided to re-read Shakespeare's play upon which the film was loosely based. "Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground..." "Good wombs have born bad sons." The two quotes above come from The Tempest; they illustrate a part of my view of the play. They also underscore one of the problems with magic